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First atomic blast in 1951 shook, shaped Vegas and Nevada
There were more than 1,000 atomic tests in Nevada’s desert between 1951 and 1992, including about 100 above ground. “VEGANS ‘ATOM-IZED,’” a Las Vegas Review-Journal headline read the next day, Jan. 28, 1951, in big, bold, all-capital letters across the front page. Coverage featured reports from people awakened by the shockwave, or who witnessed a…
